Question

Difference between organizational development and change

Answer 1

Change occurs at many levels and in many ways, organizations being one level between individual change and societal change.  Individuals may have a personal change program or one coordinated by someone else.  Similarly, governments and NGOs often focus their attention on large-scale change initiatives. 

Organizational change may involve many aspects including organization redesign, process change, strategic change, etc.  Organization Development (OD) focuses attention on the behavioral (people) side of change where change resistance is often encountered if people are not involved in the planning and implementation of the change initiative.  OD has built a large toolkit of theory and practice that can be employed in organizational change initiatives.